| 1029 top there is a hole sufficiently large for a head to pass through. The sleeves are one and a half foot long, and a foot wide. The body is five feet four inches wide; its length five feet one inch and a half.
Thus I have given you the history, as related at Treves, as well as a description of the "holy coat" the infamous exhibition of which last year engendered the denunciations of one of the most highly gifted and intrepid theologists of the age. Although a Catholic priest, RONGE dared to denounce the imposition as one unworthy of the church -unworthy of the righteous precepts of religion. His sentiments found an echo in Germany as enthusiastic as that which, more than three hundred years ago, gave such effect throughout Christendom to the tenets of a Luther. Popery, rely upon it, has received a blow, which will eventually upset its stronghold. The serpent was only scotched by the first reformer. It will expire under the tortures of the second. Man, in all civilized countries, is beginning to think for himself; and hereafter he will be guided by reason, instead of being governed by power. There is a spirit of inquiry abroad, which cannot slumber until every shackel [shackle] which binds the intellect is burst asunder. Truth and light, emanating from Heaven itself, must triumph over falsehood and darkness. The miner's son of Eizelben hastened the colonization of this mighty republic, by imbuing the public mind in Europe with proper notions of religious liberty. Political liberty afterwards became its handmaiden; and the salutary results from their union embolden the timid and the fearful to speak aloud-to gird on their armor, and to "go forth conquering and to conquer' the vices of the world.- Union.
(->) We have extracted the foregoing not so much for intrinsic merit, as for the devices and stratagems of men. Jesus said: "hereafter I will not talk much with you; for the prince of the world cometh, and hath nothing in me." and truly "the prince of this world" has ruled the world by flattery and deception: for Jesus never said that virtue went out of his garment when the diseased woman touched the hem, but the virtue went out of HIM.
One of the best traits of Mormonism is, that it cures all kinds of speculations, deceptions, and contrivances, which have the greatness of man for their object, rather than the glory of God.
Mormonism is a perfect Nebuchadnezzar's furnace for this generation, and if those cast into the "fire," whether catholic, protestant, or Pagan, have not "the form of the fourth like unto the Son of God," to shield them from the flames, they will be scorched by it as soon as they come within reach of its blaze. The Infidel, the Perfectionist, and the Christian, are alike to Mormonism; it melts all, for God is a consuming fire.
OFFENCES [OFFENSES] MUST COME.
The Savior, clothed with the authority of the priesthood, was not slow to acquaint his disciples, and advertise the world what would take place in the last days. Matthew records one of his sayings thus: "Wo unto the world because of offences [offenses]! for it must needs be that offences [offenses] come; but wo to that man by whom the offence [offense] cometh! Now apostates and people will conspire to fulfil [fulfill] this saying: And to show it we have only to quote their own sayings and doings. The apostates will hazard their lives and stop the spread of truth, and frustrate the gathering. The greedy world, swallow their falsehoods and enter into the secret, and join their honor together to persecute and crush the saints, because they worship God according to the dictates of their own consciences, and so the offences [offenses] come.
We cannot better show this principle, than by copying from the Illinois State Register, and a New York paper, the following:-
PUBLIC SENTIMENT.
The unlawful doings in Hancock county are, as we expected, bringing the State into disgrace all over the Union. The press, every where, condemns, in the most emphatic and indigant [indignant] language the treatment which the Mormons have received. When an unprejudiced man seriously and candidly reflects on what has been done-when he thinks of the hundreds of houses burnt to the ground, and their bereaved and shivering inmates turned out to starve-when he reflects that a whole community of people are, in this enlightened age, and in this free country, driven out from the comforts and blessings of civilization into the wilderness on account of their religion -for that will be the verdict of the age and of posterity, that sectarianism alone, has thus expelled them-he must admit that disgrace will cleave to our institutions, as a consequence of these outrages.
From a New York Paper.
"A whole community of the people banished! driven violently from their homes, their farms, and their Church; their blood shed by lawless adventurers of Illinois and the State, either unable or unwilling to protect them! How are we as a nation to explain to a civilized world this dire calamity, this desecration of all that is free in our Government? Was it
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